gluCylinder

gluCylinder: draw a cylinder.

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C Specification

void gluCylinder(
    GLUquadric*	 quad,
    GLdouble	 base,
    GLdouble	 top,
    GLdouble	 height,
    GLint	 slices,
    GLint	 stacks)

Parameters

quad: Specifies the quadrics object (created with gluNewQuadric).
base: Specifies the radius of the cylinder at z = 0.
top: Specifies the radius of the cylinder at z = height.
height: Specifies the height of the cylinder.
slices: Specifies the number of subdivisions around the Z axis.
stacks: Specifies the number of subdivisions along the Z axis.

gluCylinder draws a cylinder oriented along the Z axis. The base of the cylinder is placed at Z = 0, and the top at Z = height. Like a sphere, a cylinder is subdivided around the Z axis into slices, and along the Z axis into stacks.

Note that if top is set to 0.0, this routine generates a cone.

If the orientation is set to GLU_OUTSIDE (with gluQuadricOrientation), then any generated normals point away from the Z axis. Otherwise, they point toward the Z axis.

If texturing is turned on (with gluQuadricTexture), then texture coordinates are generated so that t ranges linearly from 0.0 at Z = 0 to 1.0 at Z = height, and s ranges from 0.0 at the +Y axis, to 0.25 at the +X axis, to 0.5 at the Y axis, to 0.75 at the X axis, and back to 1.0 at the +Y axis.